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Non-Canonical Signaling From The Etr1 And Etr2 Ethylene Receptors In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Arkadipta Bakshi
Non-Canonical Signaling From The Etr1 And Etr2 Ethylene Receptors In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Arkadipta Bakshi
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The gaseous phytohormone ethylene regulates several physiological and developmental processes in higher plants. There are five ethylene receptor isoforms that mediate the responses to ethylene in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Prior research has shown that these five ethylene receptor isoforms in Arabidopsis have both overlapping and non-overlapping roles in regulating diverse responses such as growth in air, growth recovery after removal of ethylene, and ethylene stimulated nutational bending. Functional divergence of ETR1 has been determined in controlling some of these traits and in some of these cases, ETR1 subfunctionalization requires the receiver domain. Using homology modeling and sequence …